U.S. Navy snipers fatally shot pirates holding Richard Phillips hostage after seeing one of the pirates 'had an AK-47 leveled at the captain's back'. The ship was stormed by pirates 350 miles off Somalia. The captain of Maersk Alabama, Amer...

Roxana Saberi, 31, an Iranian-American journalist has been jailed for eight years by Iran after a brief trial held behind closed doors. The journalist originally faced accusation of buying alcohol and of working as a journalist without a valid press card.
Then the charge of spying was introduced, and she was tried...